An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
NSN 5935-01-527-6278
NSN 6135-01-579-3534
NSN 5990-00-226-1152
NSN 6135-01-096-1452
NSN 5905-00-783-6456
NSN 5960-00-256-3622
NSN 4140-01-563-1276
NSN 5925-01-124-0156
NSN 5996-01-597-4912
NSN 6150-01-420-7850
NSN 5930-00-248-6608
NSN 5996-00-665-2869